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The Sugar Fix: Balancing Hormones, Reversing Insulin Resistance and Breaking the Addiction Cycle- a Round Table Talk.

The Hormone Solution with Karen Martel

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Are You Saying No to the Chocolate?

From 35 on, we start to lose our progesterone. Progesterone's really important to calm our brain down. It reacts on what's called your GABA receptors in your brain which is very anti-anxiety. So it's in this indirect way with anxiety and depression and not being able to tolerate life. Your nervous system just gets shut because you have none of this nice buffering progesterone and estrogen on board. Our cortisol tends to get high and then tends to crash. Now we're tired and we can't get off the floor. What do we want? We want quick energy. And so those are the indirect direct ways that we can be craving sugar and addicted

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